No, the last refuge you have left is to stop viewing content and stop visiting sites whose business practices you don’t support. But you think you deserve something for nothing so you come up with a way to justify it to yourself.

Why do you think you get to ignore the marketers requests that you look at ads in exchange for viewing content?

I used to whitelist The Deck. It didn't stop them from going under. The last refuge I actually have is advocating for public policy to make data collection without explicit consent illegal. Otherwise the shortlist of sites I can use without engaging with tracking behavior is extremely short.

Like I said, you can stop visiting the sites you don’t like the business practice of, you can accept that you like some content more than you dislike the business practice of the site, or you can convince yourself you’re right.

It’s not complicated.

Good luck changing public policy.